The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-23
49,355,251 BIBLES.
Printed in 165 Languages and Dis
tributed Broadcast Over the Earth.
From Tie Nen York Eleninn SIN.


From the NeW York Euening sun.
The American Bible Society has Just COM
piled the results of its work for the past
year 1t has issued OFT sos volumes, be-
sides half a million i'll foreign lands. This
makes the total number of Bibles issued by
the society since its organization III 1916,
IS, 355, PSI. The corrected proofs of the
last pages of the New Testament of Ponape
have been returned from Micronesia, and
the last pages of the Muskokee Testament
from Okmulgee. The Dakotans want new
edition i'll their language
The American Bible Society has published
the Bible in all the languages of Europe,
and in Reval- Esthonian, Irish, Finnish,
dialects of Africa Gsebo-Mpongwe, Benga,
Dlkele, Zulu; in the languages of the Sand
witch Islands and Micronesia in the Slavic,
Bulgarian, Chinese, and Japanese, and in 10
North American Indian dialects. making ~
in all Those issued by the British and
Foreign Bible Society make the total num-
Der OF languages and dialects in which the
Bible is printed to-day by these societies 165.
OF these the oldest looking are the Irish,
Slavonic, Turkish, and Azerbijan, or Tartar
Turkish, Georgian Syriac, Arabic, Ethiopic,
Tigre (Which has colon after every world,
Amharic, Persian, Pail, Parsi-Gujerati,
Sindhi, Canarese, Malayalim, Urdu, OriSsa,
Siamese, Burman, Tibetah, Karen, Java
nese, Coptic, Cree, Time, and Cherokee.
How many translators do you employee
was asked of the Rev. Dr. Alex Mclean,
one of the secretaries
1--WE have no translators. The work is
done by the missionaries, who have to study
the language Of the country in which they
labor. The Bible Society pays their ex-
penses while they are translating for us"
"How many Bibles have been printed for
the blind?'
There were issued last year 207; the en-
tire number in forty-four years is IA, 1S4
These are in the raised letter form"
What are the new Bibles for the blindG
I've printed twelve years ago Bible in
the New York point print, and have printed
the Psalms IN the same, and have now COM
| pleted the Gospel according to ST. John"
What is the point print!"
1t Is system OF points that represent
either separately or by combination the
letters OF the alphabet. The old raised
letters could not be readily detected by
| fingers that had became calloused by basket
making, at which many blind people work
| The points can be felt by the dUllest finger .
| The cost of supplying the Bible in foreign
lands is 500, 692 "a more than is received
| from them. One-ninth Of all the families
visited by the agents are destitute of the
| Bible.
| 1t took DR.. Eli Smith and DIR. Van Dyck
| sixteen years to translate the Bible into the
| Arabic. DR.. Schauffler spent fourteen years
on the Osmanlee version. DR.. Scheres-
chewsky fifteen years to render the Old Tes-
lament into the Mandarin Colloquial. DIR.
Williamson and DR.. Riggs spent forty years
on the Dakotan version. One of them esti-
mates that he spent on an average thirty
minutes on every verse he translated. Since
| Bible societies were organized $50 versions
have been produced in about 200 languages
and dialects.